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<br />follow the boxcut, and mine the east central portion of the <br />subject application area, This dragline could stop its <br />southwesterly advance at the center of the lease application <br />where a north-south trending gully has apparently eroded <br />away the mineable coal seam. On the western side of the <br />gully where the Wadge seam is in place, overburden removal <br />I ~ iy. <br />would be accomplished with a Marion 7400 14~yard bucket <br />capacity dragline, All the strip pits on the lease <br />application would be oriented in a northeast-southwest <br />direction, It is anticipated that mining xould commence in <br />1979 and terminate in 1986, Figure 2 shows the preliminary <br />mine plan sequence anticipated by Energy Fuels, <br />The following subsection provides a detailed description of <br />the sequence of mining procedures that xould be employed by <br />Energy Fuels if they are the successful bidder on coal lease <br />application C-22644, <br />Soil Material Removal <br />Mining activity begins xith removal of the topsoil, All <br />available topsoil, namely A and B horizons, would be removed <br />with push-pull scrapers. When the operation is running <br />smoothly, the topsoil would be removed and replaced imme- <br />diately. This xould not take place until spoil grading <br />could start, thus during the first four cuts it would be <br />necessary to stockpile topsoil, The topsoil xould have to <br />10 <br />